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Wozzeck opera in three acts

Title: Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Alban Berg, from the drama by Georg Büchner ; English text by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall.
Author: Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

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Description

on 5 sides of 3 sound cassettes (156 min.) : mono., Dolby-B processed.

Series Statement

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 12, 1969]

Uniform Title

Wozzeck
Opera news on the air (Radio program)
Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Alternative Title

Wozzeck

Subject

Operas

Note

Sung in English.
Title from house program ; series title from Opera news.
Durations: 0:56:30 (synopses and features) 1:39:30: (opera).
Production notes and official cast list (6 p.) in Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Event (note)

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 12, 1969.

Contents

side 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 (Milton Cross) ; Opera news on the air: Boris Goldovsky discusses Wozzeck ; Synopsis of act 2 (Cross) -- side 2. Texaco's opera quiz, with quizmaster Edward Downes and panelists Martin Bernheimer, Alfred Frankenstein, Paul Hume, and Irving Kolodin ; Synopsis of act 3 (Cross) -- side 3. Act 1 -- side 4. Act 2 -- side 5. Act 3 ; Closing remarks (Cross).

Call Number

*LTCM 305 (F)

OCLC

NYPG88-R55

Author

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935.

Title

Wozzeck [sound recording] : opera in three acts / Alban Berg, from the drama by Georg Büchner ; English text by Vida Harford and Eric Blackall.

Playing Time

005630 013930

Series

Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network ; [broadcast of Apr. 12, 1969]

Performer

Geraint Evans (Wozzeck) ; Evelyn Lear (Marie) ; Louise Pearl (Margret) ; Robert Nagy (Drum Major) ; Paul Franke (Captain) ; Charles Anthony (Andres) ; Andrea Velis (Fool) ; Donald Gramm (Doctor) ; Richard Best (First Apprentice) ; Russell Christopher (Second Apprentice) ; William Zakariasen (Soldier) ; Charles Kuestner (Townsman) ; René Mack (Marie's child) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Colin Davis, conductor ; Milton Cross, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 33, no. 24 (Apr. 12, 1969).

Event

Originally recorded in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Apr. 12, 1969.

Original Version

Re-recorded at NYPL, Mar 1988, from borrowed masters (3 sound tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.).

Added Author

Harford, Vida. Translator

Blackall, Eric. Translator

Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837. Woyzeck.

Evans, Geraint, Sir. Performer

Lear, Evelyn. Performer

Pearl, Louise. Performer

Nagy, Robert, 1929- Performer

Franke, Paul, 1917-2011. Performer

Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012. Performer

Velis, Andrea, 1932-1994. Performer

Gramm, Donald. Performer

Best, Richard, 1935- Performer

Christopher, Russell. Performer

Zakariasen, William. Performer

Kuestner, Charles. Performer

Mack, René. Performer

Davis, Colin, 1927- Conductor

Cross, Milton, 1897-1975. Commentator

Goldovsky, Boris. Commentator

Downes, Edward, 1911- Commentator

Bernheimer, Martin. Commentator

Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981. Commentator

Hume, Paul, 1915- Commentator

Kolodin, Irving, 1908- Commentator

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Added Title

Opera news on the air (Radio program)

Texaco's opera quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LTCM 305 (F) Production notes in listening room.

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